It's summer! It's hot, especially in China, which is seeing record heat waves. To cool off, some people eat chilled watermelon. A few kids are even wearing it. According to Xinhua, China's largest news agency, the trend started this past July in W...

Valvrave introduced its male lead and one of the female leads with a scene in which the two are engaged in an eating contest. This not really how you'd expect Sunrise's to launch their latest standard bearer of Gundam-style mecha anime.

A-1 Pictures's TV anime adaptation of light novel author Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online sci-fi franchise has been so popular, and so immensely successful that Japan's TV stations have decided to give the show its own end-of-year TV special.

Now, if we really wanted to be cruel, we'd attach a Gun Gale Online pic as the thumbnail to this story. It's time for some speculation. While details haven't been announced, the Sword Art Online anime will be getting a "Extra Edition" TV special, ...

Highschool DxD As the second season of High School DxD is airing, the next level of anticipation for the property is the new game that's coming out in November in Japan, which is being billed as an Erotic Battle Adventure game.

A second preview clip arrives for Coppelion, providing an extensive look-around at the lush scenery, whilst also showing us more into this series' disturbed world and the twisted characters within it. Skipping up to 50 seconds into the video will ...

Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival announced this year's winners on Thursday. The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation went to both Makoto Shinkai's The Garden of Words and Toshiyuki Kubooka's Berserk Golden Age Arc III: Des...

Friday • August 9, 2013 • by hightrancesea During a product announcement event streamed live on niconico, Crypton has released more detailed plans regarding the upcoming release of Hatsune Miku V3 and Hatsune Miku English.

This outfit might help Lightning bind those now extra-bouncy boobs. The leading lady of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is getting new bonus gear in the form of The Flower of Battle outfit, which decks her out samurai style.

Ignition Hearts to ship in Japan this winter after TV anime's fall debut Japanese game company 5pb. announced on Friday that the Infinite Stratos 2 television anime is inspiring the Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts video game.

Animation director Hiroshi Ogawa passed away due to stomach cancer on Wednesday, August 7 at 9:20 a. m. He was 62. Born in Tokyo, Ogawa graduated from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College in 1976. He then worked at several animation studios, including Ts...

BlazBlue's first anime PV does not let down, the anime is looking nearly identical to the game's own animation sequences – though unfortunately, we can't judge the action yet as the video doesn't show much fighting.

Pokémon X/Y Introduces Mega Evolution A new promotional trailer has been shown for the upcoming Pokémon X/Y and it unveils "Mega Evolution", a new feature where certain Pokémon can transform through Mega Evolution during battle.

Type-Moon co-founder, Takashi Takeuchi, has unveiled a new, ultra-adorable flavor of Saber within the latest issue of Comptiq that is set to join the crew of ongoing Type-Moon gag-comedy manga Koha Ace EX.

NINPU! SHINOBI CHANGE! Just in time for the release of the Hurricanger 10 Years After V Cinema Special, official images of the S. H. Figuarts Gouraiger Brothers in addition to HurricaneBlue and HurricaneYellow have been released!

Toei recently announced the next Power Rangers show, which will have an English dub! This show is no other than Power Rangers Samurai, the adaptation of the 33rd Super Sentai show, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger!

The anime Ore no Nōnai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love Come o Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru ( Nōkome ) will begin broadcasting in October. It is an adaptation of the popular light novel of the same name by Takeru Kasukabe.

Fourth 'Arpeggio of Blue Steel' Anime Promo Debuts Posted by Chris Beveridge August 9, 2013 at 04:00 PM Arpeggio of Blue Steel There's a pretty strong push overall for this series when it comes to promo videos since they've been coming out for awh...

The September issue of Mag Garden's Comic Avarus magazine is announcing on Monday that an anime adaptation of Kemuri Karakara (Countdown 7 Days)'s Donten ni Warau supernatural manga has been green-lit.

Shinku and Suiginto forged an agreement to stop their senseless battle for the mean time while they're still stationed on a different world that is not the place of the real alice game. The reason is because they're common goal is to defeat their ...

Second 'Non Non Biyori' Anime Promo Debuts Posted by Chris Beveridge August 9, 2013 at 11:00 AM It's been a quiet production run for Non Non Biyori ahead of its fall 2013 broadcast debut as the last time we had anything significant for it was the ...

If online retailer Rakuten's listing is correct, it looks like fans in Japan can look forward to New Atelier Rorona: Origin Story of the Alchemist of Arland on November 21. The enhanced RPG was originally announced for a less specific November rel...

5pb has confirmed "Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts" will be releasing this winter for the PS3 and PS Vita – the "2″ in the title implies a continuation beyond the anime, a new story in this sci-fi romance.

event / Alice Nine As announced via official Twitter account, Alice Nine will be taking part on "Rock In Taichung Festival" in Taiwan! The event will be held for two days on the first weekend of September but Alice Nine is scheduled to perform on ...

Gin no Saji – 05 Filed under First Impressions, Gin no Saji by Guardian Enzo | 0 Comments 「八軒、脱走する (Hachiken, Dassō suru/i>) "Hachiken Runs Away I'll say it again: "Slice of Life" is misapplied to more series than I can count, but Gin no Saji is l...

Mention of "Shield Energy" on a Mages/5pb. (Steins;Gate, Muv-Luv) had fans thinking that they'd soon be hearing news of an Infinite Stratos game. . . . . . and they were right! A teaser site has now launched for &ldquo;Romantic Ignition Adventure&...

It's all fun and games until SOMEONE GOES SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN ALONE AT NIGHT JESUS CHRIST REI I WOULD SMACK YOU IF YOU WERE REAL So, ocean swimming. Let's talk about it. It's a different beast than pool swimming, with its unique set of challenge...